ZDNet Australia and numerous Australian papers/sites are all reporting on the outbreak of the Evaman mass-mailing worm that is at present "servicing" only Australian users, but is likely to spread once the working week begins in Europe and N.America.
Evaman, which spreads to addresses found at the Web site email.people.yahoo.com, arrives as an attachment with a .exe or.scr extension. Infected e-mails generally have subject headings such as "failed transaction or "failure delivery".
Hartman said Symantec was currently waiting for the UK and US week to start in order to see the impact of the Evaman virus overseas.
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